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SUBMITTER: Schonberg C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263081 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schonberg Christina C Sandhofer Catherine M CM Tsang Tawny T Johnson Scott P SP
Frontiers in psychology 20141211
Visual attention and perception develop rapidly during the first few months after birth, and these behaviors are critical components in the development of language and cognitive abilities. Here we ask how early bilingual experiences might lead to differences in visual attention and perception. Experiments 1-3 investigated the looking behavior of monolingual and bilingual infants when presented with social (Experiment 1), mixed (Experiment 2), or non-social (Experiment 3) stimuli. In each of thes ...[more]